{"id":114075,"date":"2014-11-18T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114075"},"modified":"2014-11-18T23:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:24:55","slug":"dstv-prices-versus-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/114075-dstv-prices-versus-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv prices versus inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

DStv subscribers in South Africa have become accustomed to an annual price increase, which usually kicks in at the start of April every year.<\/p>\n

News emerged recently that DStv prices in Ghana would be coming down<\/a> due to the local currency strengthening against the Dollar and the Euro.<\/p>\n

When MultiChoice South Africa was asked whether local DStv prices were similarly affected by exchange rates, the pay-TV operator said that its costs are made up of a number of different factors – including foreign currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach country, similarly, has unique issues in relation to costs and pricing,\u201d the spokesperson for MultiChoice said. \u201cIn South Africa our price increases have remained stable, despite big fluctuations in currency over the last few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

To see whether the price increases have been stable, and how close to inflation they really are, we created a graph and table showing the price of DStv Premium from the year 2000 and what the price of DStv Premium would have been had it increased by CPI annually.<\/p>\n

For the purposes of this comparison, inflation as measured by Statistics South Africa using the consumer price index (CPI) was used. The graph below uses Stats SA\u2019s rebased historical CPI headline numbers.<\/p>\n

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DStv Premium price versus inflation<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/td>\nDStv Premium Price<\/td>\nPercentage Increase<\/td>\nInflation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nR305.60<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n5.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nR325.69<\/td>\n6.57%<\/td>\n5.65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nR349.00<\/td>\n7.16%<\/td>\n9.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nR360.00<\/td>\n3.15%<\/td>\n5.77%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nR379.00<\/td>\n5.28%<\/td>\n1.49%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nR399.00<\/td>\n5.28%<\/td>\n3.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nR419.00<\/td>\n5.01%<\/td>\n4.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nR439.90<\/td>\n4.99%<\/td>\n7.08%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nR469.00<\/td>\n6.62%<\/td>\n11.53%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nR499.00<\/td>\n6.40%<\/td>\n6.68%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nR529.00<\/td>\n6.01%<\/td>\n4.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nR559.00<\/td>\n5.67%<\/td>\n4.99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nR590.00<\/td>\n5.55%<\/td>\n5.62%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nR625.00<\/td>\n5.93%<\/td>\n5.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nR665.00<\/td>\n6.40%<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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MultiChoice increases DStv subscription prices annually: this is how the increases compare to SA’s inflation rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":73576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[21781,85,12747,35,27607,475,21779],"class_list":["post-114075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-consumer-price-index-cpi","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-premium","tag-headline","tag-inflation","tag-multichoice","tag-statistics-south-africa-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114441,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114075\/revisions\/114441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}